“Oh Mom!  I don’t want to do another vocabularly lesson!  When am I EVER going to need this stuff in real life?!” I’d be willing to bet just about all homeschooling moms have heard some variation on this theme.  Kids don’t like vocabularly lessons, with all those funky words they’ve never heard of, and having [...]

“Mama, what do you think about string theory?” This is the question I got on the way to TaeKwonDo lessons a couple of weeks ago. String theory? Seriously?! Did I mention that she is ten years old? In all honesty I was thinking about what I was going to feed my family on return from [...]

There are so many types of homeschooling, and so much homeschool curricula to explore….There are public school online programs, classical education, Waldorf, Montessori, Charlotte Mason, unit studies, lapbooking, and….I’m sure there are more!  There are as many approaches to homeschooling as there are homeschoolers.   That’s a wonderful thing, but how do you choose what’s right [...]

The decision to homeschool is hard enough, but then new homeschooling parents have to decide which curriculum, resources, and activities to use.  There are so many choices; it’s completely overwhelming!  For me, the big must-have was a clear, concise sense of organization and having everything I need in one spot.  We use Time4Learning because it [...]

It is that time of the year for us.  The Pizza Hut Book It Reading Program arrived in my mailbox.  My girls love this program they read books and get certificates for free personal pizzas each month for six months.  So this year I decided to change it up a little.  That is to let [...]